Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s
2001: A Space Odyssey
Scored from 1,877 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In the distant past, a monolith appears before a tribe of apes, sparking human evolution. In the future, astronauts discover a magnetic anomaly on the Moon and embark on a mysterious mission to Jupiter, crewed by two pilots and an advanced artificial intelligence.
Stanley Kubrick directed 2001: A Space Odyssey, a science fiction and drama film from 1968. It stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and William Sylvester. It was made in the United States and the United Kingdom. It is rated G. The runtime is 149 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 15,255 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 1,877 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 2,003 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where 2001: A Space Odyssey lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 1,877.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
